By your same reasoning, might not some take offense to you writing “those queers”? I realize you threw quotes around it and attributed it to a fictional homophobe, but the same point could have been made without adding additional bigoted language into the situation. Med Mex did it to sell wings (mmmm….wings), you did it to sell your point - maybe not equal, but equivalent.

See my point? I hate to quote Fred Nietzsche (ok, that’s a lie, i love quoting Nietzsche), but “Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird.”
wird!

First of all, thank you very much for reading and commenting. I appreciate your reply; however, I do think there is an important distinction to be made between getting offended and recognizing something might be offensive and inappropriate to a segment of society.

To clarify, I am not gay; the menu itself did not insult my personal lifestyle. By writing this post, I am only pointing out that I believe business practices that exploit stereotypes may indeed offend its potential customers. I question why a business would put a risk like that upon themselves when it clearly could have been avoided, and other methods pursued.

Thanks again,

TK